Fastener for gloves or other articles



W. S. RICHARDSON. FASTENER FOR GLOVES OR OTHER ARTICLES; No. 566,340.

(No Model.)

Patented Aug. 25, 1896.

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WITNEEEEE UNITED STATES ATENT IFFICE.

W'ILLIAM S. RICHARDSON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE BALL AND SOCKET FASTENER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE AND NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

FASTENER FOR GLOVES OR OTHER ARTICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 566,340, dated August 25, 1896. Application filed November 16, 1894. Serial No. 529,008. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: socket-arm as having an integraleyelet. Figs. Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. RICHARD- 8, 9, and 10 show a slight modification to form soN, a citizen of the United States, residing a cap having a button effect. at Boston, in the county of Suffolk, State of Referring to the drawings, A represents the 5 Massachusetts, have invented a new and useball member of the fastener, and B the socket ful Improvement in Fasteners for Gloves or member. The ball membermay be of any of other Articles, of which the following isafull, the ordinary types, and has a neck a and an clear, and exact description, reference being enlargement or. The socket is formed from had to the accompanying drawings, forming a flat blank 12, which may be of the shape 10 a part of this specification, in explaining its represented in Fig. 1, or of the shape reprenature. sented in Fig. 8, or of any other desired shape,

The invention relates to a fastener having since the essential elements of the invention two members,one of which is a ball member, are obtained. In this blank there is formed so called, and the other the socket member; a hole I), which makes the socket-entrance.

I 5 and the invention resides principally in a new The end of the blank beyond the hole preftype of socket member formed from a flat erably has a shallow hemispherical recess Z1 blank by providing it with a hole which formed therein, and its corners may be serves as an entrance to the socket and with rounded or cut off, and the end is then folded a retaining-spring to bear against the side of upon the line 12 (see Fig. 2,) which forms 20 the ball, made by folding or bending the the inner side 79 of the socket, and the blank blank beyond the socket entrance or hole is again folded upon the line b (see Figs. 3 7o backward, upward, and inward, or so that and 4,) which provides the outer wall I) of the edge of the end is brought in line or close the socket and brings the folded end in conthereto with one side of the socket-entrance. tact with the upper surface of the plate and 25 This socket may be secured in place to the with the edge b iu line with the socket-open material with which the fastener is used by ing 1). There is thus provided a spring any desirable means, and I have shown it as adapted to engage the side of the ball which provided with an extension or arm in which has something of a compound action in that may be holes for the reception of the fastenit may be moved laterally and upwardly o ings of any kind, or the arm may have a fasupon the line or side N, or laterally and uptening-eyelet formed integral with it, or it wardly, or either, upon the side or line b as may have prongs formed integral with it. a fulcrum, and which forms a very desirable The bent-over portion of the end or section type of retaining-spring, and a' section of which forms the spring also forms a cap or which at the same time may form the socket- 35 covering to the socket-entrance, and it may cap. When a rectangular blank such as is form a square cap or have a square appean shown in Fig. 1 is used, the socket will be ance, as represented in Fig. 5, or the blank square in form. WVhen a blank such as is from which the socket memberis formed may shown in Fig. 8 is employed, the socketbe so shaped as to provide this cap or covertop will present a button-like appearance.

4o ing section with a button-like shape or ap- Another manipulation, however, is then necpearance. essary, as the part c of this blank must be In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in plan struck up to form a hemispherical or other of the blank from which the socket member shape. It will be seen that with a socket of is formed. Figs. 2, 3, and 4 show stages in this description the draft of the ball is upon 45 its development. Fig. 5 isaplan view of the the edge of the entrance and not upon the complete device. Fig. 6 is a view in section spring, and that the spring acts back of the 5 of the socket member secured to material and ball to constantly retain it against the edge in elevation of the ball member engaging it. of the plate. The section b of the socket pro- Fig. 7 is a sectional view representing the vides an arm by which the socket is adapted to be secured in placeeither by separate fas= tenings passed through holes therein, as represented in Fig. 6, where the arm has a single hole through which an independent eyelet passes, or the eyelet may be formed integral with the metal of the arm, (see Fig. 7 or integral prongs may be formed.

The fastener is applicable for use on gloves, garments, garters, &c.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States 1. In a fastener for gloves and other articles a socket member made from a long, narrow plate provided with a socket b, the end of said plate being bent inward upon the line b and the plate then being bent upon the line b to bring the section between the lines b 19 over the socket-entrance b and the portion of the plate 7L3 and its end extended toward the socket-entrance.

2. In a socket member of a fastener, a plate I) having a socket-entrance b and a cap and spring formed by bending the end of the plate beyond the line 11 over a section of it and again bending the plate upon the line b to a position to bring the section between the bend 19 6 over the socket-entrance b and the edge of the plate slightly projecting over the edge of said entrance to form a ball holding or engaging spring.

3. In a socket member of a fastener a plate having a hole forming a socket-entrance and a combined cap and spring connected at one end with the plate and extending over the socket-entrance and having a free end extended Within the line of the hole forming the socket, as and for the purposes specified.

4. The combination of a plate having a hole I), a bent end I), a bent section b and an extension from the bent section b inward, the edge of which extends beyond the edge of the socket-entrance, the portion between the sections b b providing the said bent-in end with a yielding or resilient property.

5. The combination of a plate having a depressed section or shoulder therein, ahole in said depressed section forming a socket-entrance and a cap and spring formed by bending or shaping a portion of the plate beyond said socket-entrance to form a cap, the bend b of which is within the shoulder, as and for the purposes described.

WVILLIAM S. RICHARDSON.

lVitnesses:

F. F. RAYMOND, 2d, JOHN MCGRATH. 

